I'm going to prove the versatility of TR-002 while using it on Win XP.
What should I do to manage it?
I've just bought 2 new IronWolf HDDs right now.
If I put them into the TR-002 box, they would probably need initializing and / or partitioning or else aligning.
Please, advise me what I should do next step by step.
Thanks.

Last edited by cuneiform on Sun Sep 08, 2019 11:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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now, I have placed the 2 recommended Iron Wolf HDDs into the QNAP storage as told in the manual,
set them to RAID 1 mode, got the beep, and ... there is nothing to see on the screen of a modern DELL device with Win 10 installed... such as Dell Venue 11 Pro Tablet

I will attach some pics...

Here we can see 3 green lights, but none blue light;
a Kingstone stick 32 Gb attached to the DELL USB port instead of QNAP-TR-002 just to demonstrate the DELL Venue 11 Pro Tablet is OK.

There is no TR-002 to see.

Any ideas?!

Last edited by cuneiform on Sun Sep 08, 2019 11:09 pm, edited 1 time in total.

WinXP only supports 2TB drive size, max. With the QNAP RAID controller software installed on the PeeCee, it might support a larger size. I have no idea. You'd have to look at what the software can do.

Nope...Qnap's raid controller software is just a GUI to help setup raid mode via SW vs. switches, and provides some smart data re: drive health. It relies on OS level utilities for partitioning/formatting/etc. So if OS doesn't support >2TB, you are out of luck.

now, I have placed the 2 recommended Iron Wolf HDDs into the QNAP storage as told in the manual,
set them to RAID 1 mode, got the beep, and ... there is nothing to see on the screen of a modern DELL device with Win 10 installed... such as Dell Venue 11 Pro Tablet

I will attach some pics...

Here we can see 3 green lights, but none blue light;
a Kingstone stick 32 Gb attached to the DELL USB port instead of QNAP-TR-002 just to demonstrate the DELL Venue 11 Pro Tablet is OK.

There is no TR-002 to see.

Any ideas?!

1) If you are on Win10, then use the QNAP External Raid Manager SW to verify your status.
2) After you have created a Raid-1 volume, you still need to run some kind of partitioning product (qnap links to a 3rd party free one) to actually partition/format the drives to be able to use it. Since it doesn't sounds like you did that step, that is why you don't see it. It doesn't have a drive letter yet to present.

Since it doesn't sounds like you did that step, that is why you don't see it. It doesn't have a drive letter yet to present.

Thanks a lot, Paul. I needed these guidelines a couple days ago, as I saw the TR-002 enclosure for the first time before myself... Pity, for the first time there were no guidelines at all. Now, I have got it! ...